The thesis title is Characteristics of Acoustic Java Language Speech of Declarative Mode Native in Medan (Comparison with Characteristics of Acoustic Java Languages Speech of Declarative Mode Native in Solo). The goal of the study is to measure the meaning and the significan of differences in intensity, frequency, and duration of speech sounds silables declarative mode of the Java language which is spoken by native speakers of Javanese in Medan and Solo.
This study uses quantitative method with experimental approach. This population is Javanese speakers which domicile in Medan and Solo. The amount of population is not counted because the data is homogeneous. Thus, the determination of the samples in this study are using nonprobability purposive sampling with 40 people as samples. This data research is recording data mode declarative of performative utterance (verdiktive sentence, eksersitive sentences, commissive sentences, behatitive sentences, and ekspositive sentences). Data processed using praat program to identity of intensity, frequency and duration. Once measured, performed statistical tests which using SPSS (Statistics Package for Social Scientist) apply Independent Sample T-Test to determine whether significant differences in the average indices of the two groups of variables.
The analysis showed that: (1) the average intensity of the declarative mode of performative speech spoken by speakers of Medan did not show a significance difference to the average intensity of the declarative mode of performative speech spoken by speakers of Solo, (2) and the mean frequency / melodic structure of the performative utterance is a declarative mode spoken by speakers of Medan to show the significance of differences in the mean frequency / melodic structure of the declarative mode of performative speech spoken by speakers of Solo, (3) the average duration of the sound silabis declarative mode of performative speech spoken by speakers of Medan did not show any significance difference in the mean duration of speech sounds silabis mode declarative performative spoken by speakers of Solo.